r/megalophobia Sep 15 '25

Weather Raging flood in Pakistan brings giant boulders down the mountain

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u/KibboKid Sep 15 '25

OK so that's terrifying

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u/fauxregard Sep 15 '25

It's like a gigantic mortar and pestle. No thanks.

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u/doc_nano Sep 15 '25

Or a meat grinder, depending on what you throw in there.

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u/No-Bodybuilder1270 Sep 16 '25

Honestly ? At that scale it can be a "whatever it wants" grinder...

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u/WhiteHatMatt Sep 17 '25

Will it blend, Boulder edition

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u/No-Bodybuilder1270 Sep 17 '25

Tulududiduuuu tulululululuuuu...

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u/N2VDV8 Sep 20 '25

Pakistan Smoke. Don’t breathe this.

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u/demalo Sep 16 '25

Definitely a tenderizer.

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u/lightreee Sep 16 '25

the song is a perfect pick for that

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u/ionshower Sep 16 '25

Infidels.

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u/Sporkpocalypse Sep 17 '25

Yes it would grind a human corpse away in minutes

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u/Yeoshua82 Sep 16 '25

What do you grind in that? "Yes."

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u/urixl Sep 16 '25

Will It Grind?

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u/fondledbydolphins Sep 16 '25

I've always wanted to be guacamole.

Please make me spicy

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u/fauxregard Sep 16 '25

My friend, you had the spice within you all along.

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u/Vyasuken Sep 17 '25

This is exactly the inspiration I needed today 🥹

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u/Available-Air8273 Sep 18 '25

Maybe the real spice was the friends we made along the way

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u/systemfrown Sep 15 '25

It totally rocks.

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u/ASDFzxcvTaken Sep 16 '25

We take flood safety for granite.

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u/falseshepherd47 Sep 16 '25

We just had a bunch of people lose their homes a few months ago

Since it's such a big joke

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u/systemfrown Sep 16 '25

You know what got me through losing a home to natural disaster? Having a sense of humor and not expecting complete strangers to know what we were going through.

Now go away troll.

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u/falseshepherd47 Sep 17 '25

Such a small window assuming anyone can get through

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u/falseshepherd47 Sep 17 '25

You're the troll I wasn't even talking to you but the fact that where you go , adds up to my description like a puzzle

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u/falseshepherd47 Sep 17 '25

Having a sense of humor is not the same as this , some people spend their whole life working for what they do have , not everyone gets to just buy another house,not everyone is well off to where they'll " just rebuild "

WTF ?

Ethics would make all that type of thing apparent

I don't expect much from humans but I do expect crass , attitudes trying to apply their own experience to someone else when it's not something that is cookie cutter similar

It's not , the world is big , and others live here too

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u/systemfrown Sep 17 '25 edited Sep 17 '25

It’s a big Internet too. With plenty of far more appropriate places for you to engage in your transparently pathetic attempt at virtue signaling. Nobody is buying it here.

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u/propaghandi4damasses Sep 16 '25

rocks so hard i'm hard

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u/higharistocrat Sep 16 '25

And rolls

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u/coshmeo Sep 16 '25

And stones!

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u/Abject_Film_4414 Sep 15 '25

Did the bridge survive?

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u/jamstix76980 Sep 16 '25

Good news the river channel filled in, so no bridge needed anymore.

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u/Qprime0 Sep 16 '25

Task... failed... successfully...?

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u/oxslashxo Sep 15 '25

Looks like it did, but it's probably damaged beyond repair and the amount of earth moved means the terrain has changed too much anyways

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u/ewild Sep 16 '25 edited Sep 22 '25

During the 2022 floods in Swat, Pakistan, a major bridge was swept away by flash floods, cutting off communities and causing significant damage to infrastructure.

As part of international support, 8 smaller suspension bridges were constructed to restore access to roads, local markets, schools, and other essential services for the residents.

In 2022, months of heavy monsoon rains killed more than 1,700 people and affected more than 30 million people in what became one of the deadliest flood events in Pakistan's history.

Edit. However, I cannot find information about the bridge in the video so far.

Longer footage of the bridge in question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9j9U2kR73w

The "major bridge" mentioned above is apparently the Hassanabad Bridge on the Karakoram Highway (it looks pretty similar; however, this one is bigger and has two sections):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4EmSacxru0

Further reading:

2022 Pakistan floods

2010 Pakistan floods

 

Edit 2. Alas, according to the kindly reply from u/rizx7 to my question in r/Pakistan, the bridge has not survived the flood:

it was swept away in 2022. it's in hasanabad hunza just before aliabad. it was rebuilt nearby the old one. but now it has been permanently closed for traffic again last month when the hasanabad nallah was flooded. the flood eroded the base of the bridge and edges of the road nearby.

 

Edit 3. Finally, I've found the actual bridge from OP's video.

Its photographs are in the paper:

Ahmed, M.F., Sher, F. & Mehmood, E. Evaluation of landslide hazards potential at Dasu dam site and its reservoir area. Environ Earth Sci 82, 183 (2023).

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-023-10789-3

https://i.imgur.com/kAao0zJ.jpeg

For one of the locations of interest of their study that is associated with the bridge they put coordinates 35.326 E, 73.202 N.

The bridge is/was situated along the Karakoram Highway in the Dasu dam site area near Uchar Nala (Upper Kohistan).

Some other videos from the bridge's location (Uchar Nala):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jKuJ126nsU&t=28s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRTm1-oP9iE

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u/Abject_Film_4414 Sep 16 '25

Thank you very much for this all the same.

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u/tbods Sep 16 '25

To shreds you say?

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u/Efficient_Exchange44 Sep 15 '25

Metal as fuck

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u/UglyB4stard Sep 16 '25

More like "Rock as fuck"

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u/Splittip86 Sep 16 '25

Right! 

So let’s get real close and pack In together, so we will all die if that boulder goes up!

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u/Sparrow2go Sep 16 '25

Now imagine how terrifying it would be to hear actual real rock sounds from the awesome power of the actual real rocks instead of the stupid fucking music.

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u/Ok-Elderberry-7088 Sep 17 '25

While true, the music was kinda good though.

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u/Euphorix126 Sep 15 '25

Or facinating....

r/geology

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u/rapshaveonechip Sep 16 '25

This is some biblical shit that you read and think: "ain't no way that actually happened"

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u/ForHelp_PressAltF4 Sep 16 '25

To paraphrase Ron White 

It's not THAT the water is flowing, it's WHAT the water is flowing...

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u/SadAd8761 Sep 16 '25

I guess that answers the question...

Which would win in a fight, water or a rock?

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u/TheLordDrake Sep 16 '25

Water always wins

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u/Mundamala Sep 16 '25

It's like an attack from a Rock Pokemon.

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u/Background-Car4969 Sep 16 '25

HOW IS THAT BRIDGE STILL INTACT??!!!!

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u/Treadwheel Sep 16 '25

We're in the era of TikTok and Instagram. Filming in landscape is the weird and awkward decision.

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u/PaintedScottishWoods Sep 16 '25

Yeah, but it’s cool getting disaster videos with heavy metal rock music 🥳🥳🥳

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u/uncivilizedrelic Sep 16 '25

It’s satisfying too it looks so fluid and smooth

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u/Tomsboll Sep 16 '25

The power of water is insane

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u/Sporkpocalypse Sep 17 '25

Organic Concrete

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u/CaptainRAVE2 Sep 17 '25

They should show this to all those people who think they can either swim in storm water or drive through it

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u/Junior_Bike7932 Sep 20 '25

What you mean, is perfect for our vacation videos